80-2025: INITIATIVES.INITIATIVE PETITIONS.

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MISSOURI
ANDREW BAILEY
Supreme Court Building
207 W. High Street
P.O. Box 899
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Phone: (573) 751-3321
Fax: (573) 751-0774
www.ago.mo.gov
June 11, 2025
OPINION LETTER NO. 80-2025
The Honorable Denny Hoskins
Missouri Secretary of State
James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center
600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Dear Secretary Hoskins:
This opinion letter responds to your request dated June 2, 2025 for our
review under § 116.332, RSMo of the sufficiency as to form of an initiative petition
to amend Article III, Revised Statutes of Missouri, submitted by Michael Lester,
2026-067.
We approve the petition as to form, but § 116.332 gives the Secretary of
State final authority to approve or reject the petition. Therefore, our approval
of the form of the petition does not preclude you from rejecting the petition.
Because our review of the petition is simply for the purpose of
determining sufficiency as to form, the fact that we do not reject the petition
is not to be construed as a determination that the petition is sufficient as to
substance. Likewise, because our review is mandated by statute, no action
that we take with respect to such review should be construed as an
endorsement of the petition or of the objectives of its proponents, or the expression
of any view respecting the adequacy or inadequacy of the petition generally.
Very truly yours,
ANDREW BAILEY
Attorney General
OP-2025-091